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Some of them fellers has been workin here fer a long time,
ever since hit first started.

"I prefers livin out yere, as to bein in town. We's
free out yere, and bein as how I haves what I want, why not?
Why worry about town? Some folks kin worry about the funniest
things I ever heerd about. Besides, they haint nothin
in town. I has regular work here and makes aroun $2.50
a day and sometimes more.

"As fer votin, thet's another thing I haint up to neither.
No man! I dont do no votin. A man has to know what he's
doin when he goes votin or dealin with pollytics. Lots of
fool folks goes votin and don't know what they're votin fer.
I aint aimin to fool with hit myself. Uncle Sam knowed what
everybody is a-doin, and if you stick your finger in the fire,
yor shore to git burned.

"We all goes to church here, I am a Missionary Baptist,
but I doan go as often as the rest of the folks. I doan hold
no office in the church neither. The folks here goes pretty
regular, but not me. That's all there is to do here, is go
to church and drink shine.

"But drinkin shine keeps the men well, especially when
they gotta work out in them woods in the water, they just
gotta have somethin hot in them. Hit seems to keep them from
gittin sick too. Of course iffen any of us'uns gits sick,
the company pays fer hit and we kin call whatever doctor we

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